Richard Winchester

Richard Winchester has anchored the tax program at Thomas Jefferson School of Law since 2003. Now a leading authority on federal employment tax policy, he was elected into the National Academy of Social Insurance in 2010. He spent most of 2012 in Tunisia as a Fulbright Scholar teaching Financing International Trade at the University of Carthage.

He entered law teaching after working for a decade as a corporate tax planner, helping privately owned and publicly-traded companies structure their business operations and financial transactions. Although his career initially focused on multi-state taxation, he spent his final years in practice as an international tax attorney in the national tax office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, advising both U.S. firms investing abroad and foreign firms investing in the U.S.

Professor Winchester is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review. He later clerked for Chief Justice Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton University, majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Consistently active in civic matters, he has led grassroots political organizations in Pennsylvania and also helped rewrite the charter for the city of Bowie, Maryland. He has served on the Executive Board of the Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association and the San Diego Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society. He also co-chairs the San Diego Committee of the Princeton Prize in Race Relations.

Professor Winchester has won several age group awards as an ocean swimmer. He is also a trained cook and an award winning baker. The son of two professional musicians, he is a lifelong pianist.

Courses Include: Federal Income Taxation, Federal Estate and Gift Taxation, International Taxation, Taxation of Business Organizations, Business Associations, Lawyering Skills.

U.S. Tax Issues in Choosing a Business Form, San Diego French-American Chamber of Commerce. Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Dec. 7, 2011

Obama’s Incomplete Opus: A Progressive Tax Plan That Will Defeat Its Purpose, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law, State College, Pennsylvania, October 10, 2011

Structural Racism and Federal Tax Policy: A View From the Trenches, Joint Conference of the Western Law Teachers of Color and the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty, University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu Hawaii, December 13, 2010

Obama’s Omission: How a Progressive Tax Plan Will Defeat Its Purpose, National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ, September 11, 2010

All Work, No Pay: The Looming Tax Dodge for the Rich, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2010

All Work, No Pay: The Looming Tax Dodge for the Rich, Southwest/West Junior Faculty Scholarship Conference, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Phoenix, AZ, Mar. 2010

Personal Perspectives on a Career as a Tax Lawyer, University of San Diego Tax Law Society, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, California, Mar 4, 2010

Employment Tax Issues for the Employee-Owner of the Closely Held Firm, San Diego Chapter of the Young Tax Lawyers of the California State Bar Taxation Section, University of San Diego School of Law, Nov 17, 2009

The Pursuit of Equity through the Taxation of Firm Profits, National Tax Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Nov 20, 2008

The Original Personal Holding Company Tax: An Overlooked Model for Classifying Business Entities, Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, MD, Jan 26, 2008

Working for Free, Western Law Professors of Color Conference, California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA, Apr. 2006